Personal bio
Richard Ziegler has served as presiding, sole and co-arbitrator in more than 60 proceedings in the last five years, about evenly divided between international and domestic (U.S.) matters. Before becoming a full-time arbitrator and mediator, Mr. Ziegler had been a partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton from 1984-2002 and at Jenner & Block in New York from 2007-2019. Mr. Ziegler was Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, and General Counsel of the 3M Company in St. Paul, Minnesota from 2003-07, where he led a department of more than 150 lawyers in 24 countries. In 2019 he co-founded AcumenADR LLC with Noah Hanft, former CEO of CPR, to support their practices as ADR neutrals. Mr. Ziegler is recognized in the Chambers Global and USA guides as an International Arbitrator. He is a Fellow of each of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the College of Commercial Arbitrators and the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. He is a member of the “Tech List” panel of arbitrators sponsored by the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center as well as of the panels of arbitrators maintained by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the American Arbitration Association (Large Complex Case Panel and Aerospace, Aviation and National Security Panel) and CPR (Technology; Financial Services; Cross-Border and General Counsel panels). A member of the Board of Directors of CPR Dispute Resolution Services LLC, Mr. Ziegler also chairs the CIArb NY Branch’s Education Committee and has served as Co-Director of the CIArb/Columbia Law School “Comprehensive Course on International Arbitration." He is a past Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Mr. Ziegler is certified as a mediator in international matters by London’s Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. Mr. Ziegler is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.